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TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF [Sess. lvi. 



tlie least suffer in appearance from transplantation in spring 

 1888, has only averaged 015 since, while it increased 0'45 

 the year before. 



Araucaria imbricata. 



These trees stand together at the south-west angle of the 

 Araucaria grove. Xo. 64 has short iuteruodes, No. 65 loug 

 ones, and both look well. 



The rate of oSTo. 64, the younger tree, was 0'54; that of Xo. 

 65 was 0"61. Two Araucarias of the older set, much 

 damaged by frost in 1860, were rather unsightly ever after- 

 wards. One of them, Xo. 34, nevertheless grew 0"60 in 

 1878, but never recovered further damage from frost in 

 1879-80-81, and its rate was only 0'31 till cut down in 

 1887. The other. No. 35, escaped injury in the latter frosts, 

 and attained a rate of 0"69, till cut down on account of its 

 shabby look in 1887. Its girth, like that of Xo. 34, was then 

 only about 2 feet, and another healthy young tree, No. 4* 

 at Craigiehall, but which has lost its lower branches, increased 

 at the better rate of 0^72 for thirteen years. But the species 

 is able to grow in Scotland at a much greater rate than any 

 of these. A very handsome specimen at Stravithie near 

 St Andrews, a locality by no means noted for fine trees, 

 must have grown at the annual rate of fully an inch for 26 

 years, as this is well ascertained to be its age, and it girths 

 24 inches at 5 feet from the gi'ound. Allowing six years 

 for it to grow to the height of 5 feet, the rate would be 1*20 

 for 20 years. It is about 27 feet high, so that its upward 

 growth for 26 years has been at the rate of about a foot a 

 year. 



LaRIX EUROPiEA. 



